This week marks the last handful of trading days for the first half of 2024, as market participants watched the benchmark S&P 500 (SP500) advance 15.1% year to date.
As the first half of 2024’s trading concludes, investors can look back to see the top 10 performing S&P 500 names so far this year. Among the group among the stocks that made the cut, five of the stocks sat in the Info Tech sector, another three names were in the Utilities sector, and one stock was designated to Industrials, while the remaining stock was in the Health Care sector.
Listed below are the top 10 performing stocks that sit inside the S&P 500 year-to-date as H1 concludes.
Top 10 Performing S&P 500 Stocks YTD
No. 10: First Solar (FSLR) +48.3% YTD.
No. 9: CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD) +48.6% YTD.
No. 8: Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) +51.5% YTD.
No. 7: NRG Energy (NRG) +54.3% YTD.
No. 6: GE Aerospace (GE) +60.5% YTD.
No. 5: Micron Technology (MU) +65.8% YTD.
No. 4: Constellation Energy Corporation (CEG) +85.9% YTD.
No. 3: Vistra (VST) +125.8% YTD.
No. 2: Nvidia (NVDA) +187.7% YTD.
No. 1: Super Micro Computer (SMCI) +209.3% YTD.